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chymed (/kaɪmd/) adj. Drunk beyond the point where food, thought and speech remain usefully separate. Ellymae was chymed and attempted to swallow a sentence before finishing it. chymicaled adj. Of a drinker: practising obsolete alchemy upon the contents of the snack bowl. Chinonye was chymicaled and attempted to turn salted peanuts into a meal of consequence. chymicked adj. Drunk in a way that makes every practical action resemble an obsolete chemical experiment. Leva, chymicked, measured the stairs by trial and error rather than by sight. chymificationed adj. Drunk, with the result that solid intentions become a thick, slow mass before reaching action. Abrahm became chymificationed and reduced the plan to a warm hesitation by the stairs. chymisted adj. Of a drinker: convinced that obsolete terminology will improve the explanation for missing the last train. Hollymay was chymisted and described the closed station in terms no conductor recognised. chymistried (/ˈkɪ.mə.stɹid/) adj. Drunk to a degree that makes alchemy seem a reasonable account of the evening's transformations. Kalaijah got chymistried and attempted to turn a glass of water into another round. chymopapained adj. Drunk to the extent of applying a tenderising enzyme to the lower back and then blaming the furniture. Surah became chymopapained and lowered herself onto the stairs as though treating a disc. chymoplasmed adj. Drunk on the strength of a soft internal layer that has not yet decided what shape to take. Suvanna was chymoplasmed and folded gently around the arm of the chair. chymosinned adj. Drunk since last orders, and curdling slowly whenever asked to stand upright. Ardice was chymosinned and required the banister to complete the descent. chymosinogened adj. Drunk by the third round, and still only the inactive precursor of a person capable of going home. Addey was chymosinogened, not yet mobile but visibly approaching a more troublesome state. chymostatinned adj. Drunk by closing time, and apparently equipped to inhibit every remaining effort at coordination. Terrain was chymostatinned and prevented his own legs from agreeing on the stairs. chymotrypsinned adj. Still drunk, and cleaving every conversation at precisely the wrong point. Yosha, chymotrypsinned, cut through Ziair's explanation before the useful part arrived. chymotrypsinogened adj. Too drunk to act, but plainly an inactive precursor to a much more decisive collapse. Dkayla was chymotrypsinogened and remained on the landing awaiting conversion into movement. chymotrypsinolysised adj. Sufficiently drunk to digest your own coordination, leaving the pieces distributed among the stairs. Desales was chymotrypsinolysised and found his feet operating as separate departments. chymused adj. Having drunk enough to become thickly mobile, with speech and balance passing slowly from one stage to the next. Avita was chymused and poured herself carefully down the staircase. chyometered adj. Slowed by drink to draw every last measure through a piston, long after the round has moved on. Bradie was chyometered by last orders, still extracting the final measure with scientific care.